Sustainability

Donations and Charity Events

As a socially responsible enterprise, Xtep keeps advancing philanthropic practices. Our charity footprint covers education development, rural revitalization, emergency disaster response and vulnerable group support across a full spectrum of social initiatives.

The Group’s cumulative donations in cash and materials have exceeded RMB 500 million.

• Project Love Set Sail – Special Growth Programme
  


• The Group responds promptly to social emergency disasters and contributes Xtep’s resources for humanitarian aid, with cumulative cash and material donations surpassing RMB 200 million.
  


• Empower rural revitalization via sports resources and support the nationwide charity running programme “Colourful Village · Harmonious Countryside Fun Run”.
  

Employee Care

Our skilled and motivated workforce is key to our success, driving innovation, growth, and adaptability in the ever-changing market. The Group’s employee management is centered on talent attraction and retention through offering competitive compensation, a variety of training opportunities, and cultivating a caring and supportive corporate culture. These initiatives aim to create a safe, positive, and growth-oriented work environment for all employees.

A highly skilled and collaborative workforce is fundamental to the Group’s development and succession. As of 2025, we had approximately 8,829 employees, covering 28 ethnic minorities in China, with the workforce breakdown detailed as follows.

The Group is dedicated to cultivating a proficient and culturally integrated workforce to support the long-term organizational development through deploying a range of training and upskilling initiatives. Our strategy centers on broadening employees’ professional expertise, enhancing leadership capabilities, and fostering cultural alignment, ensuring that the employee development is aligned with the Group strategic objectives. In 2025, the Group continued to focus on talent development and capability enhancement across its entire business ecosystem, providing a systematic training program for formal internal employees and frontline retail partners. During the reporting period, the Group delivered a total of 671,777 training hours across all channels. Of this total, formal employees of the Group received 162,829 training hours, while frontline retail employees (including employees of distributor stores and third-party retail partners, who are not on the Group’s official payroll) received 508,948 training hours.

Supply Chain Social Responsibility

The Group integrates criteria covering labour rights, occupational health & safety, environmental management and business integrity into supplier access requirements and annual performance appraisal systems, and implements routine on-site internal inspections at supplier premises. Independent certification auditors conduct field assessments on selected partner suppliers. The Group provides free counselling and standardized training for underperforming manufacturers identified during audits to standardize industrial chain operations from the source and build a responsible supply ecosystem alongside upstream and downstream partners. For further details, please refer to the Supplier Corporate Social Responsibility Management Manual.